Sen vs Loud has the most possivble upside.

Plus, there is a solid chance that you'll end up sleeping while you watch Navi vs KC because of how fucking slow they'll move.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, will affect these guys like the platchat ranking. If they lose and get placed lower, then we might have to give them a week off for a mental health break. AT MINIMUM we'd need to give them a suicide watch. Platchat means a lot to them bro.

They added mwzera and started to succeed. Coincidence? I think not.

If Sentinels win it should be more of a question of "Should Sacy still be on smokes after this" than "Is Tenz the problem". From this new coach, it seems much more likely for the team to look to switch it up, and to finally force Deph to play a less comfortable role. I am not mad that Pancada is playing Killjoy, he's an insane player. Pancada has the ability to morph into what Less is for Loud. Pancada on that role makes sense. Sacy on smokes doesn't make sense, he's a player that should be activated not deph. Deph doesn't need to lurk on smokes, Pancada can handle that. Deph can still set up the team in a controller role. With how Sacy plays, he should have the initiator utility to potentially frag.

I'm just gonna copy -> paste this in every sen discussion.

I'm posting something here so I can come back and see exactly what this guy is asking. I watched like one game of TOGS, and now that I'm looking at the bracket this shit is wild compared to last split. There have been multiple 13-0's? When all but one team has 2 wins and 1 or more loses? WTF is this league?

Godamn, maybe KC gets 10 round over two maps this week

1 Foxy9, 5 PC's

Unbeatable squad right there

Had to get Zekrow out of there so he could take his rightful place at the bottom of the board.

Generationally quick and swift 2-0 by Navi

That should be the point of the character. Give him his trips and he's useful as a sentinel, which makes him too much better. If he can only cover 1 close choke and hold another, then that's fair. His ult is an OP. He has an instant TP that gives him enough space to get another OP shot off. He has a quick pull pistol in case he misses. He should be the OP character. There is also no economy charecter, so making him bolster the economy gives him enough extra use that teams that want an OPer and not a sentinel, can do as such.

100% of his teams kills against LOUD. ABSOLUTE GOAT BEHAVIOUR.

Update: Nevermind

I think the best way to make him good again is to keep him as a relatively bad sentinel.

I would make him a kind of new character, a unique passive. What is Chamber? A rich French gun businessman.

The best way to buff chamber is to give an extra $100 per round for the whole team, after pistol round. Makes it easier to afford OP, gives him a passive use to the team since he's already very selfish. He is strictly an OP-er, nothing more and nothing less. For Ranked, chamber just becomes a lurker with an OP at basically every opportunity. In competitive, teams trying to force a KJ can go back to a Chamber as a semi-substitute but not as a pure replacement. I think this approach works better than improving his ability to OP.

Me when someone more likely to get sick gets sick, again:

:O

2 (debatably 3) of those guys don't even play Jett for their teams.

me when pearl b rush

:O

Why can't we just accept that a majority of the teams in this league are close? Each and every team can punch-up and be competitive with the other ones. We get a close game and it's "this team is shit," we gotta admit that Sentinels are good. MIBR are good. NRG is still good. Leviatan is good. Cloud 9 is good. Even 100T, through everything, is still a solid team.

That's a lie, mine is 104.166.156.0

no, but you can see my IP

No. Sentinel's were out of a meta for a full year after King left, only now are actual sentinels are good role. Even back when he was on VS, you shoulf have been running double duelist over a sentinel most of the time. If I remember right, towards the end of VS, it was buzz for King and I'd rather have buzz out there with an OP.

I understand eko -> Sylvan more than Ban - > Intro. Switching into your growing prospect? I get it. Switching out of what would be your growing prospect? No clue what's going on. Even the fact that eko entered the year with Gen.G and sylvan was added, it's the reverse for Ban so even that doesn't make sense.

Don't worry, I fixed it for you.

Yeah, I think Kyedae talked about it a bit on stream but she didn't really expand or show it. It'll at minimum afffect his movement too, which will be super rough.

Gen.G just did too good, T1 can't compete with the best team in Korea (fuck it bro, we'll see next week. Gotta get my Hopium in early).

He has a joint infection, his index finger is swelled up. He can't really move his index finger but, since its swelling, it might also affect how well he moves his middle finger.

Gen.G did well today. IF WE DIDN'T GET FUCKING LOUD MATCH 1 WE WOULD HAVE DONE GREAT IN LOCK//IN.

Tenz has no left-index finger for the match basically. It might also affect the mobility of his middle finger too, but I'm not knowledgeable about the thing, I just know it's swelling.

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They should get Zombs, he's fluent in Korean.

What type of shit are you smoking and what wierd guy in an alley can I get it from, cause whatever brain-fucked shit your on would revolutionize the depth of conspiracy theories.

Gen.G owns the region, just watch them dance on the corpses of these mf

It lets select players focus on select maps. Like, eko plays on Ascent and (i believe) sylvan will sub for Haven on the same role.

Boostio has a job bro, I can mention Zander.

Here is the problem, I've gone over anything.

Reason 1: Playstyle. Playstyles are hard to nail down, region-to-region and team-to-team, but NA has a specific playstyle. NA is very, very proactive, way more than any region. This causes a huge snowball, if they miss a timing they lose a massive amount of control or they get a pick and gain a ton of momentum in the round. Here's the issue, Brazil/Asia play really bundled and EMEA has extremely tight defaults. NA teams still rely heavily on just poking around to get a 1v1, but against global competition it's rarely ever a 1v1. This is why NA relied and used chamber so much better than the other regions, it allowed the best mechanical player to poke around with multiple safety options. The second part of the NA playstyle is partly becuase of this proactivity. NA Team are great individual players; NA teams are shitty teams. Look at NRG today, they had more success as individuals, but 2 MIBR players can play better off eachother than 3 NRG members. I'm refering more to midround utility, trading, and holding effective positions with the team and less of just running set plays. Look at how many times Ardiis played an angle and died without anything close to a trade. NA teams don't capitalize on their teammates like everyone else does.

Reason 1 TLDR - NA players do very well on their own, but are innately countered by the playstyles of other regions

Reason 2: Our IGL's are shit. Runi is the best fragging IGL, stellar is too inconstant to put up there. Runi is very good, he's super effective in his role while being an IGL. ALL THE GOOD FRAGGING IGL'S ARE IN FUCKING T2. EVEN FUCKING SHAZ WOULD DO BETTER THAN BOOSTIO, DEPH, AND FNS. AT LEAST FNS CALLS BETTER THAN MOST, BUT HE CAN'T FRAG FOR SHIT. JohnQT, previously mentioned Shahz, Valyn, even fucking Zander. All could produce better than those 3 fucks. This isn't a matter of "all our good players are in ascension", it's a matter of underproducing IGL's not being covered for, except for FNS cause he does call better than Boostio and Deph. But other than FNS, can you say any IGL in NA is better than most other franchised IGL's? Not really.

Reason 2 TLDR - NA IGL"s are below average players, and below average compared to other region's IGL's

Other things people say is that NA is spread too wide, I don't really think so (other than the small-time IGL's having better mechanics and maybe that M80 is better than EG). I do think though that the gap is being overstated. C9 still took a map of Loud. NRG and MIBR went to 3 close maps.

Laz was very reliant on Chamber play, more than anyone except Dicey.

MIBR just better. NRG has shit teamplay and it was hella exposed.

FPX has lost twice to ASE. It seems like if Life just shows up (which he has vs FPX) then it's GG. I haven't watched any of the Chinese scene, but it seems like ASE might grab up that second position. Other than that, everything else is a nuance critique, like maybe Sen can comeback for forth? It's arguable but just about as likely as TL making it in EMEA. I do hope tho that this week Sen revert Sacy and Pancada in favor of forcing Deph on the KJ/cypher. If Sen do that, then they could be in the conversation of an upset.

Just give Foxy9 five separate PC set-ups and he could beat Fnatic.

It's a different game that benifits from different individual playstyles and mechanics. A ton of former overwatch pros are now Valorant pros, just like CS. It's still a different game, but I'm sure a good amount of pro's from any game would be good if they switched.

Best teamplay in NA. No other team in the region plays off their teammates better than these C9 players. IMO they gonna be beefing with Sen and MIBR to get that last playoff spot.

That is fair.

May offer you a shit sleep schedule to watch the true k1Ng play?

NA teams are the best at playing solo, but the worst at playing as a team. That's why NA dominated in Chamber meta, cause it let your best mechanical player play alone and succeed. Now that it's a more team based meta, NA teams are set to struggle since they have terrible teamplay. C9 picked up worse players that were way better at supporting their team, that is why they are successful. C9 played a better team game today than any NA team ever has. NRG gets bailed out by Chet and FNS creating great set plays, but when it's non-set utility, they're still just a mid ass team with teamplay.

NA sucks because NA can't stack their teams effectively like other regions can. Simple as that.

EMEA plays it so slow that it's impractical to compare them to any other region.

He's cute, I'm all for it.

It's pearl defense. It's like split attack. get a 9-3 or lose outright. It's how every single pearl goes with good teams.

I listen to music during most matches. Only time I don't is with Egg and the car crash victim.

I don't think PRX are better than Sen. Mindfreak has been such a non-entity in 2023, I can't believe in PRX until he gets back to even playing decent. I also think Zeta could still beat RRQ.

It's pearl defense, the worst defense side in the whole game, MIBR should win

Not every day do you face a mf who will swing as wide as heat does. Most play by spike or by the box, but heat just wide swings in the open